How to open header file for specific PIC?

[NAR]

Let me give that a shot;

I assume you mean when you right click and click on "Open File at cursor" option. Yes, if you do that with .h or .c then CCS IDE will open that file in a new TAP within the IDE. Except; if your project is unable to see that folder in the first place. For example, if your .h or .c you are trying to open is in the same directory as your project then it will open (compile your .c file first to get your project file created and directories included)

If you put it somewhere else and 'Project' settings can't see that folder, then nothing will happen when you click on that menu option.

If this is the case; go to Options -> Project -> Include Files and add the directory where file is located. On the other hand, if the folder is not there, you wont be able to compile either.

[Ttelmah]

We are back to what I said at the start...

Point is the right click 'open', uses the _Windows_ associations.
If Windows has been told to open .c and .h files 'with' the CCS IDE, then the files will be opened with this. If the association hasn't been set, it won't open. If is is set to something else, it opens with this instead.
Happen to know this, because I have .c files set to open with another compiler, and if I use the right click option, it uses this instead....

[NAR]

[Ttelmah]

Something else has changed these associations.....

Will happen if you install quite a few other things.

That's also assuming the IDE was installed on that system. Quite common to copy it onto another system, then the associations are not set.

[jeremiah]

[Ttelmah]

Interesting. It's MS Visual studio, that took them over on my system....

[NAR]

[Ttelmah]

When you install, one of the last options it asks is whether to associate .c and .h files with the IDE. Wonder if the behaviour changes according to your selection on this?. I always say 'no' on recent installs (have too many compilers on the system...). About fifty copies of CCS included!...

[NAR]

[NAR]

Is installing different versions into different folders work ok?

I am using MAC. So my Windows development is Virtual Machine using VirtualBox. Runs nice and fast and i backup entire windows just by coping a file. I clone the VM when i need to install a new version and name that clone 5.069, or 5.070 and so on. This way i am sure no other files changed during upgrade, even to another folder! If no issue with having different CCS main folders running different compilers (& CCSLoad!!) will give that a try.

[Ttelmah]

I keep all the compilers separate.

PICC5058
PICC5060

etc. etc.

Create the directory.
Copy into it the registration files.
Download the install & run it.
In the install you tell everything to install into the directory name you have chosen (It'll insist momentarily on trying to create a sub directory call PICC, but just edit the selected name to remove this). You have to select the directory three different times.
Then after install, rename the automatic updater program.
Make sure all of your includes are done as 'relative', rather than including full paths.
Launch the compiler, and make sure it's default include options are set to include it's library files.

Then to recompile a file, simply delete the project file.
Open the compiler you want to use.
Select the main C file.
Compile.

Because you have deleted the project, each compiler uses it's own default includes.
Because you have renamed the auto updater, it won't be used, so the version will remain unchanged.

I have a single folder containing shortcuts to dozens of versions. Can just use whatever one I want.

[NAR]

Thanks. Will give that a try. Backup will be just a little bit faster and also trying a different version will be faster. Now i need to shutdown current VM and load the other Windows VM to try to compile with a different version.